Hackers Deface a Trump Website in Tribute to Jon Stewart

A Canadian group of activists is taking credit for a digital smackdown of GOP presidential contender Donald Trump.

The hacktivist organization, a collective called Telecomix, apparently compromised the content management system of Trump.com, according to the Register:  “The CMS looks to be pretty basic and, to be perfectly honest, pretty awful. A cursory look at the source code for trump.com's main page reveals a number of attack points and directories that have been "cleverly" obfuscated from standardized penetration toolkits by adding an underscore in front.”

The stunt occurred the week that comedian Jon Stewart is scheduled to retire from hosting the Daily Show on Comedy Central.

In a letter inserted onto Trump.com, the hackers largely praise Stewart and take only a few jabs at Trump, according to the Washington Times.

The missive ends by wishing the best of luck to Trump, “America’s first openly A?!--hole Presidential Candidate.”

A statement that Telecomix posted to an online bulletin board explains that the billionaire’s website was not damaged beyond the display of the ode to Stewart, but the hack should wake up Trump, who had lambasted the Obama administration for spending billions of dollars on the botched Healthcare.gov website.

The defacement was up for most of the work day on Aug. 3.